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NOTE TO G. M. KRZHIZHANOVSKY.
17/X [1921]

G. M.,

I am sending this confidentially.

Read it and return it today, at the latest tomorrow morning.

The author is partly right: I will modify the assignment to Gosplan in the conclusion
(to the PK—to the zemstvo assignment).

Think through the method of coordinating and c l a r i f y i n g  the tasks of Gos-
plan and give me your plan (draft resolution on the delimitation of Gosplan and planning c[ommissio]ns) i n  w r i t i n g.

Respectfully, Lenin.


NOTE TO SECRETARY.
2272

24/X [1921]

I require the p e r s o n a l  signature (telephone is acceptable) of all commissars
of the e c o n o m i c  commissariats.

Lenin.


LETTER TO M. V. RYKUNOV.

October 28, 1921

Comrade Rykunov,

Having received your packets, yesterday's and today's, I must point out to you the incorrectness of the manner in which you are conducting this matter.

All such questions must be coordinated with the commissariat (now with Radchenko).

Conducting the matter in a scattered fashion through individual members of the collegium is incorrect not only by the constitution, but also in substance—it introduces delay and chaos.

Pres. SNK V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

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1 Lenin's letter was a response to M. V. Rykunov's letter (chairman of the extraordinary commission for export) of October 28 and theses of October 27, 1921. In both the letter and the theses, Rykunov set forth his particular viewpoint on the question of the monopoly of foreign trade, being in disagreement on this with the collegium of the NKVT. In Rykunov's view, in connection with the transition of enterprises to cost accounting, it was necessary to abandon the monopoly...

* Printed from a typescript copy. —Ed.